How to Get the Most Out of the Mouse in Windows 10

All PC users have a mouse, which is used to point and point objects on the screen. However, mastering it can become an art, so in this article we are going to tell you some tricks and tips so that you can get the most out of the mouse in Windows 10 and thus maximize your efficiency when using it. Do you want to become an expert? Then keep reading.

Most users are aware of the difference between the left and right mouse buttons : the left serves to mark or execute, while the right serves to remove the conceptual menu and thus access additional options wherever we are selecting with the cursor . But did you know that there are many other shortcuts and things you can do if you combine it with keyboard actions? And the third mouse button , don’t you use it? Let’s see how these things can improve your day to day using the PC .

Get the Most Out of the Mouse in Windows 10

The third mouse button

Ask most PC users how many buttons their mouse has, and they’ll tell you only two. However, this is only true in older mice, because the scroll wheel has been incorporated into the mouse for many years, which is also a third button in the vast majority of devices, and has great utility.

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This third button that works, effectively, by pressing down on the scroll wheel, can be used as a shortcut to open links in the browser. Try doing it right here if you want, by pressing the scroll wheel on the following link and you will see how it opens in a new browser tab: HardZone.es

Likewise, clicking with the middle mouse button on an open browser tab will close it, without having to hit the X. Note because if it is the last one open, it will close the browser.

By pressing the wheel on a “blank” space on a web page, what you can do is scroll quickly in any direction just by moving the mouse in that direction. This quick scroll is especially useful on pages with a lot of content since it avoids you having to use the scroll itself to do it.

Another function that it has in a browser is if you combine the scroll wheel with the CTRL button on the keyboard, because in that case it will serve to zoom in or out on the page. Do you think that the letter of a website is too small? Just by pressing CTRL + the scroll wheel you can make it bigger quickly.

Some mice also have a 4D scroll wheel. This means that in addition to up and down you can scroll to the right and left, something ideal not only in an Internet browser, but also in spreadsheets such as Excel or in a file explorer in Windows.

Double and triple mouse click in Windows 10

In any text (be it in a browser, a word processor such as Word or Notepad, or simply when editing a file name for example), if you double-click on a word you will select it, regardless of the number of characters that have.

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If what you want is to select a paragraph or a complete sentence, then you must triple click instead of double and you will have it selected, which will make it easier for you to copy it to paste it somewhere else, or simply take out the conceptual menu by clicking below Right-click on it.

Other keyboard and mouse combinations

There is much more you can do with the mouse to get the most out of it in Windows 10. For example, there are times when selecting an entire paragraph of text with the mouse can be difficult, especially if you have a small workspace as you will have than lifting the mouse while holding down the left mouse button.

To solve this you can also simply place the cursor at the beginning of the text you want to select, press the SHIFT key on the keyboard and, without releasing it, click at the end of the paragraph. By doing this, you will select the entire paragraph, or essentially all the text between where the cursor was at the beginning and where you clicked at the end.

You can also highlight parts of a text that are not adjacent to each other by pressing the CTRL key on the keyboard and left-clicking the part of the text that you want to highlight. Highlight the first part of the text in the traditional way and then use this method for the rest of the parts. This will be especially useful when you want to copy only part of a text or table.

Window management

Finally, there are also tricks to manage windows with the mouse. Normally, when you want to maximize or restore a window you have to go to the upper right corner of it and click on the maximize or restore buttons, right? With the mouse you can do it much more quickly, since you will only have to double-click on the window bar; if it was maximized it will be restored, and if it was not, it will be maximized.

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In addition to that, to close a window you usually click on the X in the upper right corner, but if you double-click on the icon in the upper bar, located on the left, it will have exactly the same effect and you will close that window.